Thursday, October 19, 2017

Trump Has Killed More Civilians with Illegal Drone Strikes in 9 Months Than Obama Did in 8 Years

While the mainstream media focuses on anything but the current state
of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, the Trump Administration is
breaking records by accumulating a horrific number of civilian deaths.

Former President Obama earned the nickname of “Drone King” when he
dramatically escalated the use of drone strikes, while also downplaying
the number of innocent civilians who became “collateral damage.” In the
two years that his administration devoted to publicly spending millions
of taxpayer dollars to fight the Islamic State group, the estimated
civilian death toll ranged from 2,300 to 3,400, according to Airwars, an organization tracking deaths in the war against ISIS.

President Trump has been in office for just 9 months, and he has
already surpassed Obama’s murderous record with estimated numbers as
high as 4,500 civilian deaths.

Trump made headlines in December 2015, when he declared
that if elected, he would not only kill members of ISIS—he would also
“take out their families.” He is following through on that promise,
according to a report from Steven Feldstein, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

Feldstein noted that researchers have documented the rise of “frequent
killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes” under the
Trump Administration. This trend led to “the deaths of at least 57 women
and 52 children in Iraq and Syria” in May.